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GARD 0R BNVELOP HOLDER FOR TYPE WRITERS. No. 577,104. Patented Feb. 16,1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT Y OFFICE.

JOHN H. DORMAN, OF NEl/V YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE HAMMOND TYPE \VRITER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CA RD OR ENVELOP HOLDER FOR TYPE-WRITERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,104, dated February 16, 1897.

Application filed May28, 1896. Serial No. 592,841. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. DORMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Card or Envelop Holders for Type-IVriters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to card or envelop holders adapted for use in connection with type-writing machines to facilitate the writing on cards or addressing envelops; and the object of the invention is to so construct the card or envelop holder that the bottom edge of the card or envelop when placed between the feed-rollers of the type-writer will be supported in an accurately-horizontal plane with reference to the line of the type-impression, and the card or envelop may be adjusted vertically either up or down, whereby any objective point or line may be brought in proper relation to the type. The device is so constructed that the vertical adjustment of the card or envelop is efiected solely at one end of the holder with facility and perfect accuracy and without lifting the holder.

- In the accompanying drawings the invention is illustrated as used in connection with the Hammond type-writer, such parts of the type-writing machine only being shown as are necessary to make clear the manner of using the holder.

- In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section through the paper-carriage of a Hammond machine on the line 1 1 of Fig. 3, showing the card or envelop holder in the position which it occupies when in service. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3. Fig; is an end elevation of the paper-carriage and attachments, showing the holder inserted in the carriage. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4. of Fig. 2, looking to the right; and Fig. 5

is a section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow.

In the several views like features are inclicated by the same reference-numerals.

Referring to the drawings, 6 indicates the paper carriage or cylinder, 7 the flexible hardrubber sheet or case within the carriage 6, and 8 and 9 the rollers between which the card or envelop to receive the impression is held, one of these rollers, 9, being supported in bearings of the paper-carriage 6, while the other is j ournaled in hangers suitably secured to the vertical arms 10 of the carriage. The feed-rollers Sand 9 are separated by the camlever or roll-opener 11. The parts thus mentioned are well-known features of the Hammond typewriter.

The card or envelop holder is indicated by 12, and its general construction is best seen in Fig. 2. The holder comprises a frame consisting of two end pieces 13 14, preferably segmental in form and rigidly joined together at the bottom by two longitudinal rods 15 15. The extremities of the end piece 14 are provided with holes corresponding with holes in end piece 13, and .in these holes are fitted the revolving longitudinal shafts 16. The shafts 16 are braced by the rigid straps 17, fixedly secured to the rods 15 15 and having eyes at their ends within which the shafts 16 are adapted to revolve. Each of said shaft-s is provided with a series of supports, preferably in the form of U-shaped wires 18, which pass beyond a longitudinal line drawn centrally between said shafts and intersecting one another, as shown in Fig. 2. The shape of the supports 18, it is obvious, need not be of the exact form illustrated.

One of the segmental end pieces, preferably 13, is form ed centrally with a slotted vertical portion 19, grooved on its inner surface, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, to receive asliding nut 20. The ends of the revolving shafts 16 pass through the segmental end piece 13 and have secured to them the connecting arms or links 21, which are slotted, as shown, and are sufficiently long to pass by each other across the central longitudinal line between the revolvin g shafts 16, so as to obtain the required adjustment above and below said central longitudinal line, the said adjustment being effected by means of the milled-head thumbscrew 22, which passes through the slots of both arms 21 and connects with the sliding nut 20. The vertical adjustment of the outer ends of the arms or links 21 is limited by the length of the slot in the vertical portion 19, and as the arms 21 are fixed to the revolving shafts 16 any adjustment of said arms above or below the plane of said shafts preserves the intersecting-point of the supporting-wires a which 23 is a card between the feed-rollers and resting at the intersection of the wire supports 18 when adjusted by the arms 21 to the extreme position above the plane of shafts 16. The type-segment is shown in Fig. 5 in dotted lines.

In making use of the card or envelop holder it is inserted in the paper-cylinder 6, upon which it rests immovably, as shown in the drawings, and is held in place by connecting the extended end 13 of the segmental end piece 13, which is slotted, as shown, to a pin 24, used in the general construction of the type-writin g machine, and turning down against the paper-cylinder the swivel-catch 25, fixed to segmental end piece 14.

From the above description the manner of using the device and its advantages will be readily understood. The supporting-crotch for the bottom of the card or envelop, formed by the intersecting wires 18, may be elevated or depressed, so as to bring any objective point or line of the card or envelop in proper relation to the type to receive the impression. The graduating is effected wholly at one end of the holder and without disturbing the position of the holder within the paper-cylinder.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Acard or envelop holder for type-writing machines provided with means for securing it immovably to the machine and with a support for the card or envelop, combined with appliances for vertically adjusting said support, up or down, wholly from one end of the holder.

2. A card or envelop holder for type-writing machines adapted to be secured immovably in the paper cylinder or case and provided with two series of pivoted intersecting supports and means for vertically adjusting the latterto change the relation of the intersecting line of the same with reference to the line of the type impression.

A card or envelop holder for type-writin g machines consisting of a frame provided with two pivoted longitudinal shafts each having a series of supporting-wires extending beyond the longitudinal center between said pivoted shafts, the wires of one shaft intersecting with those of the other, said shafts at one end of the holder provided with means for revolving them whereby the intersecting line between said wire supports, above or below the plane of the revolving shafts, may be changed and fixed with relation to the impression-line of the type.

4. In a card or envelop holder for type-writing machines, the combination with a frame provided with two pivoted longitudinal shafts each having a series of supports intersecting one another, of a pair of links secured to said shafts at one end of the holder and slotted at their outer ends, a vertical guide grooved to receive a sliding nut and a screw passing through the slotted ends of said links and con neeted to said nut, whereby said supports may be adjusted above or below the plane of said shafts and fixed in the position of adjustment.

5. In a card-holder for type-writing machines, the combination with the end pieces 13, 14, one of which is provided witha slotted perpendicular portion, and the connectingrods 15, 15, of longitudinal shafts pivoted in said end pieces and each provided with a se ries of intersecting supports or wires, a pair of links secured to the ends of said shafts at one end of the holder and slotted at their outer ends which pass by each other, a nut adapted to slide in said slotted perpendicular portion and a screw passing through the slots in said links and connected with said nut, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination with the paper-carriage of a type-writing machine, of a card or envelop holder adapted to rest in the paper-carriage and provided with a support for the card or envelop and with end pieces, one of which is provided with a slotted extension adapted to be connected to the machine-frame and the other with a swivel for locking the holder in place, and means for vertically adjusting said support from one end of the holder without changing the relation of the holder to the paper-carriage.

7. The combination with the paper-cylinder of a type-writer and the feed-rollers, of a card or envelop holder provided with means for securing it immovablyin the paper-cylinder and with a support for the card or envelop and appliances for vertically adjusting said support wholly from one end of the holder without changing the relation of the holder to the paper-carriage.

Signed at New York, in the county and State of New York, this 21st day of May, 1896.

JOHN H. DORMAN.

lVitnesses:

FRED S. BARSTOVV, WM. T. HUMES.

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